South Metope IV of the Parthenon is one of many sculptures from the Parthenon in Greece that have been scattered across the ...

In 480 BC, Persian forces led by King Xerxes I burned down the city of Athens, as well as the Acropolis, in what is called “the Persian Destruction of Athens.” The destruction of the great city took ...

Records indicate that when Bavarian soldiers arrived in Athens in the 1830s ... A major push to renovate the Parthenon came in the 1890s when chief restoration engineer Nikolaos Balanos, under ...

The proposal to create high-quality replicas could serve as a compromise, allowing the British Museum to retain a display ...

A highly sophisticated restoration team is painstakingly reassembling the Parthenon of Athens—a classic Greek building that has suffered from wars, earthquakes, and disastrous previous ...

The current appearance of the sculptures owes much to the highly controversial restoration ... the port of Piraeus near Athens take the heaviest sculptures from the Parthenon pediments.

After conservative UK leaders refused to send Parthenon fragments home to Greece, a new government has ushered 'constructive' negotiations over a return. https://p.dw ...

Only a year after the Parthenon was finished, Athens went up against Sparta in ... the centuries of natural disasters, war, ...

Parthenon sculpture: Centaur and Lapith (made around 440 BC). Marble; from the Parthenon, Athens Around 1800, Lord Elgin removed some of the sculptures from the ruins of the Parthenon in Athens ...

The reunification of the Parthenon Marbles took center stage at a conference hosted by the Greek community of the London ...

While there are many more acropoleis (the plural of "acropolis") in Greece, it's this one in central Athens that garners ... 5th century BC , including the Parthenon, the Temple of Athena Nike ...

Still, the city is also known as the "Athens of the South" thanks to the numerous higher education institutions established there. This identity is reinforced with the Parthenon, a full-scale ...